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monosyllabic word

NOUN
  1. a word or utterance of one syllable

How To Use monosyllabic word In A Sentence

  • One particular quirk of syntax occurs remarkably often in both poems: duplication of a monosyllabic word with asyndeton, within a line.
  • As they continue to develop, children learn to segment polysyllabic words into syllables as they approach kindergarten age and monosyllabic words into phonemes around first grade.
  • This influence of the chief accent affects also combinations of two monosyllabic words which make an iambus, and combinations like _ego illi_, _age ergo_, in which the second syllable of the second word is elided. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
  • Density is thus largely a function of word stock and reflects at this stage in Coolidge's work an affinity for monosyllabic words, particularly those that couple long vowels or diphthongs with consonant blends.
  • The first two lines, containing only monosyllabic words, mix a sing-song dimeter with a grim subject matter.
  • That the language contained a very large number of monosyllabic words is, however, certain; and as phonetism is necessarily syllabic, we may assume that the earliest Egyptian scribes had a rich mine of syllabic forms to draw upon. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
  • The first two lines, containing only monosyllabic words, mix a sing-song dimeter with a grim subject matter.
  • A succession of books followed, mostly easy readers that told tales of the Revolutionary War through colorful pictures and monosyllabic words.
  • The opening couplet divides ten monosyllabic words evenly between two lines.
  • Jo answered, spitting out each monosyllabic word.
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